Puttee.



E. SAUBESTRE.

PUTTEE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 15. 1912.

1,138,152. Patented May 4, 1915.

EDOUARD SAUBESTRE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4:, 1915.

Application filed May 15, 1912. Serial No. 697,374.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDOUARD SAUBESTRE, a citizen of the French Republic, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puttees, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description.

This invention relates to a puttee or legging for inclosing the leg of the wearer between the ankle and the knee.

The object of the invention is to provide an attractive, simple and efiicient puttee or legging at reasonable cost, in which the sections will maintain their proper adjustment vertically when once in place, and which will be held tightly to the leg, and shaped to conform thereto by the aid of a single strap, so placed that the strap on one puttee of a pair will not interfere with the strap of the other when in use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved puttee. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same showing a space between the closing portions and the strap unattached. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 Fig. 2.

As shown in the drawings, the puttee is formed of a split tapering cylindrical body portion approximately fitted for the calf of the leg, having two adjacent edges separated by a longitudinal opening, which is closed by the overlapping of the edges when the puttee is adjusted. A strap 2 is sewn or otherwise attached near one lower corner of the body portion. A buckle 4: may be attached to a strap 3, which is secured to the opposite upper corner from that of the strap 2, and a plain loop of metal 5 maybe secured in place by the strap 3 or otherwise secured as shown in Fig. 2. Opposite and in line with the metal loop 5 I form a series of slots 6 through the material of the puttee. The puttee is first slipped on to the leg of the wearer by separating the edges, and is caused to fit the same snugly by drawing the strap 2 spirally around the puttee, as indicated in Fig. 1. The loop 5 is projected through that one of the slots 6 which causes the puttee to fit snugly on the individual who is to wear the same, and the strap is passed through the loop, thereby locking the two portions of the puttee from longitudinal motion one on the other, and is then fastened in the buckle 4: snugly.

Slits or holes 8 and 9 are formed, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, near the top of the puttee,

one at the back and the other adjacent the holes 6, so that the strap 2 may be passed inside of the puttee between the slits to present a smooth surface at the inner side of the leg.

I claim as my invention:

The herein described puttee having a body portion with an opening between two vertical edges, a strap secured near the bottom, and adapted to be passed around the puttee, a hole at the upper edge of the said puttee on one side of the said opening, a loop on the other side of the said opening adapted to be projected through said hole, and a second pair of holes at the upper part of said puttee on substantially opposite sides thereof, whereby the strap may be passed into the interior of the puttee through one of the last-mentioned holes, out through the other of said holes and thence through the projecting loop. 1

Signed at New York city, New York, this 13th day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve. V

EDOUARD SAUBESTRE. V

Witnesses:

F. WARREN WRIGHT, HARRY M. LEWY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

